Lanoraie is a town in the Lanaudière

Lanaudière

Lanaudière is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population of 429,053 inhabitants.-Geography:...

 region of Quebec, Canada, part of the D'Autray Regional County Municipality

D'Autray Regional County Municipality, Quebec

300px|rightD'Autray is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Berthierville. The municipality has a land area of 1,246.68 km² and a 2006 census population of 40,321 inhabitants. Its largest community is the city of Lavaltrie.-Cities...

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History

When Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big...

 passed through in the 16th century, the Iroquois

Iroquois

The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America...

 had already established themselves in the area, calling it Agochanda or Agouchonda, meaning "place where one stops to eat and rest". It was also in this area in 1642 that Isaac Jogues

Isaac Jogues

Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit priest, missionary, and martyr who traveled and worked among the native populations in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement, Lake of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1646, Jogues was martyred by the Mohawks near ...

 was abducted by the Mohawks along with Guillaume Couture

Guillaume Couture

Guillaume Cousture was a citizen of New France. During his life he was a lay missonary with the Jesuits, a survivor of torture, a member of an Iroquois council, a translator, a diplomat, a militia captain, and a lay leader among the colonists of the Pointe-Lévy in the Seigneury of Lauzon...

 and René Goupil

René Goupil

René Goupil was a French missionary and one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church....

, and taken into captivity and tortured.

In 1672, the Intendant of New France

Intendant of New France

New France was governed by three rulers: the governor, the bishop and the intendant, all appointed by the King, and sent from France. The intendant was responsible for finance, economic development, and the administration of justice . He also presided over the Sovereign Council of New France...

 Jean Talon

Jean Talon

Jean Talon, Comte d'Orsainville was a French colonial administrator who was the first and most highly regarded Intendant of New France under King Louis XIV...

 granted the territory as a seignory

Seignory

In English law, Seignory or seigniory , the lordship remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple....

 to Louis de Niort de La Noraye (1639-1708). In 1688, the Seignory of La Noraye

Seigneurial system of New France

The seigneurial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land distribution used in the North American colonies of New France.-Introduction to New France:...

(also spelled as: Lanauraie, Lanoraie, Noraye) was united with the Autray Seignory, granted in 1637 to Jean Bourdon who passed it on to his son Jacques Bourdon d'Autray in 1653.

Although the Parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie was founded in 1732, it did not really begin to develop until 1831. In 1845, this parish was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Lanoraie, but abolished two years later in 1847, when it became part of the Berthier County Municipality. In 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie. In 1848, the Municipality of Lanoraie-d'Autray was formed.

On December 6, 2000, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie and the Municipality of Lanoraie-d'Autray were merged to form the new Municipality of Lanoraie.

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 4067 (2001 to 2006 population change: 5.1 %)
• Population in 2001: 3869
• Population total in 1996: 3759
  • Lanoraie-d'Autray: 1904
  • Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie: 1855
• Population in 1991:
  • Lanoraie-d'Autray: 1793
  • Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie: 1562

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1619 (total dwellings: 1725)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 1.0 %
• French as first language: 95.2 %
• English and French as first language: 0 %
• Other as first language: 3.8 %